Made-to-order blinds for a Kraaifontein house with glass on every wall, and no plan yet for three o'clock.
Made-to-measure blinds, external shading and motorised awnings for Kraaifontein's new estates and established family homes — specified for whichever way your stand actually faces, not the way a showhouse assumed it would.
Twelve ways to dress a Kraaifontein window
A bare aluminium slider in a brand-new Zonnendal build, a settling sash in an older Windsor Park lounge, a braai patio that needs shade before the Cape Doctor gets going — twelve products, made to measure for the window in front of you. The external lines, roller shutters and zip screens, are the premium end of the collection: they take the heat outside the glass instead of inside the room.
Sunscreen Roller Blinds
The first answer for bare new-estate glass, whichever way your stand ended up facing — glare and UV down, the street or the garden still in view.
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Blockout & Double Roller Blinds
Proper dark for a school-morning bedroom, or blockout and sunscreen on one bracket for a room that needs both.
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Day-Night (Zebra) Blinds
Tune the light band by band through the day — the usual pick for an open-plan living and dining wall.
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Aluminium Venetian Blinds
Built for the wet-winter damp in a kitchen or bathroom, where fabric is the wrong material for the job.
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Timber Venetian Blinds
Wide 50mm slats for a study or main bedroom that wants a natural, warmer material than aluminium.
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Cellular Honeycomb Blinds
Insulation for a compact new-estate bedroom or nursery, holding its temperature through a hot dry summer and a wet cold winter alike.
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Vertical & Panel Blinds
Wide vanes that tilt or draw clear across the sliding doors most Kraaifontein living rooms open onto the garden through.
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Concealed Ceiling-Recess Blinds
For the double-volume glass some of the newer estate designs bring in — hardware planned into the ceiling, not bolted on after.
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Roller Shutters
Full heat, light and glare control from outside the glass. Shading, not security — that's a different product, available on request.
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Folding-Arm Awnings
Shade over the braai patio before the south-easter gets going — wind-sensor motorisation as standard, not an upsell.
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Zip Screens
A wind-proof patio enclosure that holds taut instead of flapping — closes a braai room in without permanent building work.
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Motorised Blinds & Automation
One app or remote for a growing household of blinds — no cords near small hands, no chain to reach on a double-volume window.
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Proper dark for a 6am start, whatever the season's doing outside.
Every room asks a different question
A living room wants the garden kept in view without the glare that comes with it. A kid's room wants total dark on a winter morning that doesn't argue with a 6:30 alarm. A braai patio wants shade that survives a south-easter afternoon instead of folding up in one. One consultant, one visit, a written answer for each.
Shade held over the braai table long before the Cape Doctor picks up.
Fitted to the bracket your window actually needs, not a generic one.
The hardware is chosen for the wall, not just the fabric
Chain and cord tensioners fitted as standard, cordless or motorised operation wherever a chain isn't the right answer near a child's room, and brackets chosen for a plastered new-estate reveal or a settling older frame — the two rarely take the same fixing. We check which one we're dealing with on site rather than assume.
Most Kraaifontein measures start with the same question: is this a new estate wall or an older frame that's moved a little since it was hung.
On-site measure, KraaifonteinA road grid decides your orientation before the sun does
Kraaifontein sits astride the N1 roughly halfway between Cape Town and Paarl, and most of its growth over the last few years has come from new estates like Zonnendal and Camelot, sitting alongside long-established family suburbs like Windsor Park and Zoo Park. That split matters for a spec: a new estate's stands are laid out on a road grid, not oriented to the sun, so a living-room slider ends up facing whichever way the plot points — the same aluminium door design turns up on a north wall two houses down and a west wall next door. We start every new-estate measure by asking which way the glass actually faces, because a showhouse layout tells us nothing useful about it.
The sun itself is predictable even if the plot isn't: at this latitude the winter sun sits at roughly 33° at midday, low enough to rake deep into any west-facing room for months either side of June, while the summer sun runs close to 80° overhead and a normal eave copes with it on its own. The Cape Doctor south-easter is the other constant — strongest from September through May and busiest in January, which is exactly when a Kraaifontein back garden is doing the most braai-weekend work, so a folding-arm awning or zip screen gets a wind sensor specified as standard, not offered as an upgrade. Established Windsor Park and Zoo Park homes bring a second, quieter issue: older aluminium sliding and casement windows on a settling frame, where a bracket that worked on a brand-new estate wall needs rechecking on site.
- Orientation confirmed on site for new-estate glass, never assumed from the plot number
- Blockout or double roller specified for west-facing rooms catching the low winter sun
- Wind-sensor motorisation as standard on any awning or zip screen over a braai patio
- Aluminium venetians over timber in wet-winter bathrooms and kitchens
From enquiry to fitted, in four steps
Enquire
Tell us the rooms, the products you're weighing up, and whether the house is a new estate build or an established one. Whichever suits you, the chat or the form — it's a two-minute job.
Free in-home measure
A consultant measures every opening on site, confirms which way the glass actually faces, and brings fabric samples.
Written quote
Every window priced on its own line, with the lead time written in, so the invoice holds no surprises against the quote. So there is a number in your head first: across the whole range, expect R1,000 to R7,500 per square metre installed, with interior fabric at the bottom of that and motorised exterior work at the top. Small windows carry a minimum charge and the exact price is set at the measure.
Made & fitted
Every piece is manufactured to your measurements and installed cleanly by our own team, new bracket or old one.
Measured at the house, made for the opening
Kraaifontein Blinds is a made-to-measure window shading service for Kraaifontein and the northern suburbs beside it — Durbanville, Brackenfell, Bellville and Kuils River. Roller blinds, day-night blinds, venetian blinds and cellular honeycomb blinds are all built to the sizes taken at your house. There is no showroom stock, and nothing gets trimmed on site to make a standard width sit in an opening it was never made for.
Every job runs the same way. An enquiry comes in on the chat or the form; one of our expert consultants will contact you shortly, and the free in-home measure is arranged on that call. On that visit each opening is measured properly and the fabric, slat and control options are worked through against the direction your stand actually faces, rather than the direction a showhouse plan assumed. A written, itemised quote follows, priced window by window. Once it is signed off, everything is manufactured to those measurements and fitted by our own team.
The details you send are used only to arrange that measure and quote, and are handled under POPIA.
Kraaifontein and the neighbouring suburbs
The same free-measure, written-quote process, adjusted for what each suburb's housing stock actually needs.
Before you enquire
Do you cover Brackenfell, Durbanville, Kuils River and Bellville as well as Kraaifontein?
Yes — Kraaifontein is our home ground, and we measure and fit across Brackenfell, Durbanville, Kuils River and Bellville too. Sitting just outside that ring? Put the address on the enquiry form and we'll confirm either way.
Our new estate home came with bare glass on every window — where do we start?
With which way each window actually faces, since a new-estate stand is laid out on the road grid rather than the sun. A free in-home measure covers that room by room, and most new-build enquiries end up with sunscreen roller blinds as the first layer across living areas, with blockout added in bedrooms.
What actually stops the afternoon sun on a west-facing window?
A blockout or double roller blind on the inside handles most Kraaifontein west-facing rooms — the winter sun here sits low enough to rake in for months either side of June, and a fixed eave doesn't reach it. For a patio or braai area on the same wall, a folding-arm awning or roller shutter stops the heat before it reaches the glass at all.
Where do roller shutters stop and security shutters start?
Ours are a shading product. Aluminium slats wind down out of a headbox on the outside of the window, so the heat, the glare and the light are stopped before they ever reach the glass. A security-rated shutter is a heavier build altogether and we quote that separately on request. Say so on the enquiry if security is the real goal, and the spec goes that way instead.
Are your blinds safe for small children?
A tensioner goes on as standard wherever there is a cord or a chain. For nurseries and children's rooms we generally recommend cordless, wand-tilt or motorised operation — ask your consultant and it's built into the quote.
What do we pay for the measure and the quote?
Nothing. The visit, the samples, the advice and the written per-window quote cost you nothing, and there is no obligation to order at the end of it.
Your windows, measured this week.
Free in-home measure, a written per-window quote, and a consultant who already knows the difference between a new-estate bracket and an older one.
Which windows are we looking at?
A line or two on the rooms that are giving trouble and what you have been weighing up is plenty. One of our expert consultants will contact you shortly to arrange your free in-home measure.
- No obligation, no call-centre — a consultant calls you directly
- Fabric samples brought to the measure, not just a screen swatch
- Written, itemised quote before anything is ordered
